ਲਿਖਤ ਵਿੱਚ ਸਟੈਮ ਬਦਲਦਾ ਹੈ, ਪਰ nous ਅਤੇ vous ਨੂੰ ਛੱਡ ਕੇ ਬਾਕੀ ਰੂਪ ਇੱਕੋ ਜਿਹੇ ਸੁਣਦੇ ਹਨ।
| Person | Presentnow, habits | Passé composécompleted past | Imparfaitongoing past | Futur procheabout to | Futur simplewill |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| je | avancesounds the same as another form in this tense | ai avancé | avançaissounds the same as another form in this tense | vais avancer | avanceraisounds the same as another form in this tense |
| tu | avancessounds the same as another form in this tense | as avancésounds the same as another form in this tense | avançaissounds the same as another form in this tense | vas avancersounds the same as another form in this tense | avancerassounds the same as another form in this tense |
| il/elle | avancesounds the same as another form in this tense | a avancésounds the same as another form in this tense | avançaitsounds the same as another form in this tense | va avancersounds the same as another form in this tense | avancerasounds the same as another form in this tense |
| nous | avançons | avons avancé | avancions | allons avancer | avanceronssounds the same as another form in this tense |
| vous | avancez | avez avancé | avanciez | allez avancer | avancerezsounds the same as another form in this tense |
| ils/elles | avancentsounds the same as another form in this tense | ont avancé | avançaientsounds the same as another form in this tense | vont avancer | avancerontsounds the same as another form in this tense |
Now, and habits. avance covers both "I advance, to move forward" and "I am advance, to move forwarding" — French has no separate continuous form.
A completed past action. avoir conjugates and avancé does not — ai avancé.
An ongoing or habitual past. Built on the nous-present stem, so avançons gives you avançais.
About to happen. aller conjugates; avancer never moves — the easier future to produce under pressure.
Will happen. Built on avancer-, which is just the infinitive, so only the endings are new.
Three more forms worth knowing
Not among the five TEF/TCF-scored tenses above, but common past A1–A2.
Passé récentjust happened
| je | viens d'avancer |
|---|---|
| tu | viens d'avancer |
| il/elle | vient d'avancer |
| nous | venons d'avancer |
| vous | venez d'avancer |
| ils/elles | viennent d'avancer |
Impératifcommands — no je/il/ils form
| tu | avance |
|---|---|
| nous | avançons |
| vous | avancez |
Gérondifwhile doing — one invariant form
en avançant
What this table tells you about avancer
The past participle is avancé, and it takes avoir in the passé composé — so it never changes shape, whoever the subject is. No agreement to remember here.
The futur simple is built on avancer-, which is just the infinitive — the endings are the whole story, nothing new to learn for this tense.
In both the present and the imparfait, je, tu, il/elle and ils/elles are one sound: avance, avances, avancent — indistinguishable spoken. Only nous and vous carry an audible ending.
avancer softens its stem before a hard vowel, which is why the imparfait reads avançais but avancions. The change follows the ending, not the stem — nous is always the exception.